grey-blue

comparative more grey-blue · superlative most grey-blue

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray-blue: synonym of blue-gray.

plural grey-blues

1. countableuncountableCommonwealth standard spelling of gray-blue: synonym of blue-gray.

   Other style details are duly noted: fewer ties, lots of collarless shirts, more wide-legged trousers, North African prints, and new variations in the subdued Armani colour palette ranging through 101 shades of beige, cream and grey-blue.

   1993 July 10, Roger Tredre, “Fashion: Old friends”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2026

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   As the sun's warmth melts the frost, the cool grey-blues disappear to be replaced by sunlit ochres and yellow-greens, and the blues that are present – in the narrow strip of sea visible beyond the dunes and the expanse of the wildfowl‑studded loch– are clear and bright.

   2013 February 7, Christine Smith, “Harvesting the sea-given bounty”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2015

   “Pink is often a colour people shy away from in the home, but if used correctly it can be very sophisticated without being aloof,” says Helen Leigh Jones, design director of DFS, who advises choosing a dusty pink to stop things feeling too saccharine and using it as an accent to grey-blues if you don’t feel brave enough to use it over large areas.

   2016 January 7, “The key home trends for 2016 - chosen by those in the know”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2016